verboten
/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/
"verboten" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“verboten” is uncommon English (frequency #83,873 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,873
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.
Corpus desk
Index EN-verboten · verboten · English
verboten · rank #83,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,873
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH veiling
Nearest frequency peer: veiling (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “verboten”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Valenciennes
Valenciennes
16,134 corpus weight
- vanishingly
vanishingly
16,131 corpus weight
- veiling
veiling
16,130 corpus weight
- verboten
verboten
16,128 corpus weight
- vesicular
vesicular
16,126 corpus weight
- Villalobos
Villalobos
16,122 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “verboten” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verboten |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “verboten” in English
Rare enough to double-check
verboten is uncommon English at frequency #83,873 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for verboten, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden. The correct English form is verboten, spelled V-E-R-B-O-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1(Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verboten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).
Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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